Toilet-seat hinge



Sept. 25, 1928. 1,685,088

P. A. JOHNSON TOILET SEAT HINGE Filed May 7, 1928 'Fatented Sept. 1928.

' hairs s ares;

PAUL A. JOHNSON,

n. JAOOBSON, or GRAND HAVEN, MICHIGAN. I

TOILET-SEAT HINGE.

' Application filed May 7,

This invention relates to hinges for use on toilet seats and is primarily concerned with a simple and very practical hinge construe: tion economical to manufacture, readilyinstalled and assembled and which when assembled operates effectively to get out of order. y

Anunderstanding of the invention whereby these ends are attained may be had from the. following description taken in connection and not liable 1 with the accompanying drawing, in Which,

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Like reference characters refer to like parts in the difierent figures of the drawing.

The toilet bowl 1 is of any usualstandard construction, at its upper end being provided with a rearwardly extending horizontal ledge 2. Spaced apart openings are made downwardly through'thei ledge for the pas sage of bolts. or rods 3, threaded at their lower ends and equipped at their upper ends with heads 4 which are enlarged atv their portions to provide flanges 5 adapted to bear against the upper side of the ledge 2. Nuts (3 threaded on to the lower ends of the rods 3 secure the rods with the attached-heads 4-. permanently to said ledge 2. Each of, the heads 4- is formed at one side with a horizontal cylindrical opening .7 which extends nearly through the head; and when the bolts 3 with said attached heads 4 are properly secured to the ledge 2, the openings are at the inner sides of the heads and in horizontal 'alinement with each other. p

The hinge construction includes an irregularly shaped member comprising a horizontal I cylindrical rod 8 exteriorly threadechat the outer end of which an arm 9 extends 'forwardly at right angles to the axis of the rod '8, and which, at its outer end, is provided with an integral outwardly extending cylindrical portion 1O screw threaded at its outer side and interiorly bored from its outer end enlarged horizon,

1928. Serial No. 275,686.

or GRAND HAVEN, MICHIGAN, Assronon or ONE-HALF 'r'oALvrN toinake anopening 11 entendingsubstantialily to the arm 9, there being an opening in the arm 9 at the bottom of the opening 11 of con.- siderably smaller size.

One of these irregularly as described, is located and secured tov the toilet; seat 12 at each side thereof adjacent 1ts rear end. Suitable horizontalopenings arebored in the opposite; sides ofthe seat v I and the rods Sthreaded therein until arms!) come against the sides of the seat and are po' sltioned substantially horizontal and extend n a forward direction. Screws 13 are then passed through theopenings 11 and through the smaller openings in the arm 9 which is Y of a size to freely pass the shank of the screw but not the head. Thescrews13 are driven shaped members,

into the side edges of the toilet seat, as shown in F g. 4;. In this-manner-one of these me n bers is permanently secured at each sideand near the rear endof the seat. t V A bar 1470f metal passes over theeXten-sion 10, it having an opening 15 adjacent its lower end shaped to fit the exterior of arm 9'wnereby the bar may be brought into immediate engagement withthe edge of the seat.. Bar; 14 at its upper end has an enlarged head 16 in which an opening 17fis made at the inner side for the reception of one end of a pivot pin 18,1the opposite end portion of the pin extending into the seat cover 19.- The seat cover accordingly is mounted on thetwo pins 18, as shown in Fig. 2, which at their outer ends are rotatably received in recesses .17. In order to permanentlvsecure the bars 14. in place nuts20 of cylindrical form are threaded on to the extensions 10 to lock thc bar 14 in place.

The exterior diameter of the nuts 20 is slightly less than the interior diameter'of the cylindrical recesses 7 in the heads 4. The

hinge construction comprising the threaded of the seat and seat cover, .and thereafter the heads 4:- With their depending rods 3 placed over the nuts 20, both rods then being passed downwardly through the openings in the ledge 2 and the whole securedin place between nuts 6 previously described;

It is evident from the foregoing that with this hinge the seat cover 19 alone may be turned back and forth aboutthe axes of the pins 18, or both the cover and seat may be turned back and forth about the axes of the extensions described, the nuts operating as bearings in the cylindrical recesses 7.

- This construction isof few parts, all easily manufactured and very quickly andeasily assembled with the seat and seat cover. When assembled the double screw connection of rod 8 and the screw 13 affords a very secure and permanent connection and one which does" irom one endof the rod and a threaded extensionhav-ing anaxi's paralleling the'axis of the rod extending from said arm, said extension having a cylindrical opening substantially t-herethrough, a bar of metal having an opening-at one end to pass over said arm and a cylindrical nut threaded on to said extension and against the outer side of said bar, said nut being received within the opening in said head and said her extending upwardly abovethe arm and formed at its upper end with a headhaving a horizontal opening at its inner side.

T2. In combination a support,'two spaced apart members attached to and extending ve said support, each member having a head at its upper end formed with a cylindrical horizontal opening at its "inner side, a seatlocated betweensaid heads, a hinge member at eachside of the seat including a threaded rod screwed into the seat and havi a forwardly extending arm at its outer en bearing against an e'dge of the seat, said armbeing provided at its forward end with a horizontal outward extension threaded at its outer side andhaving a cylindrical opening lengthwise thereof, a screw passing into said opening and through the end ofsaid arm into the seat, a bar of flat metal having an open ,lIlg to receive said arm located against each edge of the seat, a cylindrical nut threaded on to the end of each extension, said nuts being located in the openings in the heads of said supports, the bars extending upwardly above said arms, and a seat cover disposed between the upper ends 01 the arms and pivotally connected thereto to turnabout a horizontal axis.

3. In combination, a horizontal support, two spaced apart members connected to and extending above said support, a seat located between said members, a hinge member con" nected at each side edge of the seat near its rearend, each having an arm bearing against a side edge of the seat and a'threaded extension projected outwardly from the arm, a bar located over eacharm, a nut threaded on to each extension for securing said bar against the adjacent side edge of the seat, a

head on each of said members having a cy lindrical opening receiving said nuts and said bars extending upwardly above said seat,

and a seat cover located-between the upper ends of the bars andv pivotally connected theretototurn about a horizontal axis.

4.1n combination a seat, a hinge member connected to said seat at each side thereof and near its rear end including a horizontal arm lying against the outer edge-of the seat and a threaded extension projecting outwardly from the arm,abar of metal having an opening to receive said arm located against each side of the edge of the seat and extending upwardly above the same, a nutthreaded on p to each of said extensions to secure the bars in place, and a seat coverlocated between the upper ends of said bars. and pivotally connected therewithto turn about a horizon tal axis; v

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

PAUL A. JOHNSON. 

